Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Leo (Leo)  ·  Contains:  NGC 3177  ·  NGC 3185  ·  NGC 3187  ·  NGC 3189  ·  NGC 3193
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Hickson 44  Galaxy Group, Dennis Kaiser
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Hickson 44 Galaxy Group

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Hickson 44  Galaxy Group, Dennis Kaiser
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Hickson 44 Galaxy Group

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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I started this project finding out something was wrong with my guiding, so I had a lot of subframes with elongated stars. During the sessions I learned how to use drift alignment tool of PHD2. It is definitely not perfect but better after it.

There is something wrong about the weight and balance on my rig I figured out.

I got an advice to have the telescope side heavier when the telescope points west after the meridian flip. But by accident I figured out it might be the opposite, maybe someone can tell me how it really needs to be ?

I have over 400 subs, I dismissed a bunch and still have over 300 used.

i could definitely dismiss even more, maybe I’ll give it another try.

i have difficulties bringing out the details in small objects like those galaxies, what’s the trick there ? Can someone maybe give me an advice how to ? Or a link to a helpsite ?

With some Morphological Transformation I also got the stars a little bit better in shape.

What do you think about the color ? Here on my phone it looks terrible, on my laptop instead it is okay.

not sure what shows the right color now

but I still hope you all like it

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Hickson 44  Galaxy Group, Dennis Kaiser